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Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD is rapidly gaining market share in Australia, with sales rising 65% last year as nearly one in four EVs sold in the country was a BYD, according to EVDirect CEO David Smitherman. Chinese EVs now comprise roughly one-third of electric vehicles sold in Australia, which has no domestic auto industry to protect with tariffs, unlike the United States where both Trump and Biden administrations have effectively blocked Chinese EV imports.
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Europe may consider allocating $218 billion in frozen Russian assets to aid Ukraine, marking a significant financial shift amid ongoing tensions. Read more ›
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Elon Musk told investors to expect Tesla sales to grow this year. Plummeting sales in multiple countries complicates that goal. Read more ›
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At least 15 people were injured after South Korean fighter jets involved in a live-fire drill dropped bombs on Pocheon, Seoul's military said. Read more ›
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You're looking at a higher price than both Samsung and Google's foldable challengers. Read more ›
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French Gates joined Microsoft in 1987 as a product manager. That was where she met her former husband, Bill Gates. Read more ›
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A pastor in the Atlanta area is encouraging his congregation to "fast" from Target for 40 days after the company's DEI rollback. Read more ›
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Trump tells the Senate President to get rid of the CHIPS Act and use the money allocated for it to reduce debt instead. Read more ›
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US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wrote in an op-ed that vitamin A could help against measles. Doctors explain why it's no substitute for vaccines. Read more ›
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Steve Wozniak said that mass firings are not a good way to conduct business. Read more ›
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Musk is in the firing line for Trump's pointless economic war on America's allies. Read more ›
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Apple's first foldable iPhone should arrive around the end of 2026 or early 2027 with a book-style design and a premium price tag of over $2,000, according to analyst Ming-Chi Kuo. In a report today, Kuo outlines his expectations for the device, noting that it will have an approximately 7.8-inch "crease-free" inner display and a 5.5-inch outer display, matching a rumor from last month. Kuo says that the foldable ‌iPhone‌... Read more ›
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Donald Trump created more headaches for the White House by again saying that Elon Musk is leading the DOGE office. Read more ›
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The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in rejecting the Trump administration's request to cancel the foreign-aid money from USAID. Read more ›
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Speaking at a Morgan Stanley conference, Musk said the state of passenger rail in the US is "embarrassing." Read more ›
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While it has fewer than one-tenth of Starlink's satellites, Eutelsat is being floated as a potential replacement if Starlink access is cut. Read more ›
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Step into the future with GenAI: revolutionize business, make lightning-fast decisions, and dominate the competition. Read more ›
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Several GOP senators defended the CHIPS Act, which Trump called a "horrible, horrible thing" on Tuesday night. Read more ›
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The internet is united in one cause—turning Vice President JD Vance into a big baby through viral edits. Read more ›
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Adafruit managing director Phillip Torrone (also long-time Slashdot reader ptorrone) shared an interesting blog post. They'd spotted a Reddit post "detailing how someone took a 27-year-old visual basic EXE file, fed it to Claude 3.7, and watched as it reverse-engineered the program and rewrote it in Python." It was an old Visual Basic 4 program they had written in 1997. Running a VB4 exe in 2024 can be a real... Read more ›
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It's a feature-length film "rendered on a free and open-source software platform called Blender," reports Reuters. And it just won the Oscar for best animated feature film, beating movies from major studios like Disney/Pixar and Dreamworks. In January Blender.org called Flow "the manifestation of Blender's mission, where a small, independent team with a limited budget is able to create a story that moves audiences worldwide, and achieve recognition with over... Read more ›
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin has urged employees working on the company's Gemini AI products to be in the office "at least every weekday" [non-paywalled source] and suggested "60 hours a week is the sweet spot of productivity," according to an internal memo cited by The New York Times. The directive comes as Brin warned that "competition has accelerated immensely and the final race to A.G.I. is afoot," referring to artificial... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: OpenAI intends to eventually integrate its AI video generation tool, Sora, directly into its popular consumer chatbot app, ChatGPT, company leaders said during a Friday office hours session on Discord. Today, Sora is only available through a dedicated web app OpenAI launched in December, which lets users access the AI video model of the same name to generate up to twenty-second-long cinematic... Read more ›
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Longtime Slashdot reader mspohr shares a report from IFLScience: A video that has gone viral in the last few days shows two artificial intelligence (AI) agents having a conversation before switching to another mode of communication when they realize no human is part of the conversation. In the video, the two agents were set up to occupy different roles; one acting as a receptionist of a hotel, another acting on... Read more ›
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Citigroup credited a client's account with $81 trillion when it meant to send only $280, an error that could hinder the bank's attempt to persuade regulators that it has fixed long-standing operational issues. Financial Times: The erroneous internal transfer, which occurred last April and has not been previously reported, was missed by both a payments employee and a second official assigned to check the transaction before it was approved to... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Google has open sourced an AI model, SpeciesNet, designed to identify animal species by analyzing photos from camera traps. Researchers around the world use camera traps -- digital cameras connected to infrared sensors -- to study wildlife populations. But while these traps can provide valuable insights, they generate massive volumes of data that take days to weeks to sift through. In a... Read more ›
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Amazon has introduced its first-ever quantum processor, dubbed Ocelot, designed specifically to reduce quantum error correction costs by up to 90% compared to existing approaches. The prototype chip uses "cat qubits" -- named after Schrodinger's cat thought experiment -- which intrinsically suppress certain types of quantum errors. Unlike conventional approaches that add error correction after designing the architecture, AWS built Ocelot with quantum error correction as the primary requirement. The... Read more ›
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Chinese electric vehicle maker BYD is rapidly gaining market share in Australia, with sales rising 65% last year as nearly one in four EVs sold in the country was a BYD, according to EVDirect CEO David Smitherman. Chinese EVs now comprise roughly one-third of electric vehicles sold in Australia, which has no domestic auto industry to protect with tariffs, unlike the United States where both Trump and Biden administrations have... Read more ›
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Can a new 3D-printing technique shorten 3D printing times to just seconds? A team of researchers in Europe has modified Tomographic Volumetric Additive Manufacturing, which can "create entire objects in one shot by shining light patterns into liquid resin," according to the 3D Printing Industry blog. (The liquid resin then solidifies when the light intensity is high enough...) While this approach can fabricate support-free, micro-scale parts within tens of seconds,... Read more ›
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